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The ''BRW Rich 200'' is a list of Australia's two hundred wealthiest individuals and families, ranked by personal net worth. The list is released annually in May or June in a special issue of the ''Business Review Weekly'', published by Fairfax Media. The list provides a short summary on some of the known business activities of the individuals and families, together with commentary on how their ranking has changed from the previous year, if listed. In 2015, the entry mark for the 200th richest individual was A$286 million an increase of A$36 million on the 2014 entry mark.〔 The wealthiest individual in the 2015 list was Gina Rinehart, estimated to have a personal net worth of 14.02 billion the fifth consecutive year that Rinehart has headed the list. Rinehart's wealth resulted in ''BRW'' announcing her as the richest woman in the world during 2012, a mantle that appeared to have slipped in subsequent years, according to ''Forbes Asia''. Seventeen individuals and/or families have made every list; including Maurice Alter, Lindsay Fox, John Gandel, Bruce Gordon, Bruno & Rino Grollo, Reg Grundy, David Hains, Bob Ingham, John Kahlbetzer, Solomon Lew, John Longhurst, Frank Lowy, Grahame Mapp, Stan Perron, Alan Rydge, Kerry Stokes, and Harry Triguboff.〔〔 Fourteen women and 186 men made the 2014 ''BRW Rich 200'' list.〔〔 The list is dominated in number, but not by value, by those whose source of wealth is from property investment (26%); while in previous years mass media has been the traditional wealth creation source. In more recent years, those with an interest in resources have dominated the list by value. The combined wealth of the 200 individuals in 2015 was assessed at 195.9 billion, an increase of 1.2% on the 2014 ''BRW Rich 200''.〔 Average wealth for the 200 on the 2015 list reached 974.7 million, only marginally higher than 968 million in the previous year.〔 ==Background and history== The ''BRW Rich 200'' was first published in 1984 as the ''BRW Rich 100'', with an entry point of A$10 million, that profiled 144 people and 20 families. In 2008, it was the first time in more than 20 years that a Packer had not headed the list. Andrew Forrest was listed as the richest person in Australia, with a net worth estimated at A$9.41 billion, with James Packer listed third with A$6.1 billion. In 2009 Anthony Pratt, son of Richard Pratt (who had died four weeks earlier), was top of the list with A$4.3 billion. In 2010, the founder of Westfield, Frank Lowy, who had appeared on the list every year, was Australia's richest individual with an assessed personal net worth of A$5.04 billion.〔〔 Rinehart has held the mantle every year since 2011.〔 The list has sometimes caught the ire of those profiled. In an essay celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ''BRW'', Jefferson Penberthy, the founding editor of the ''BRW Rich 100'' wrote that at one stage Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith, then valued at A$50 million, did not want to appear on the list. When told that the cut off was A$35 million, Smith publicly divested A$20 million to charities.〔 The ''BRW Rich 200'' excludes individuals who have renounced their Australian citizenship. For example, despite Rupert Murdoch being born in Australia and having a personal net wealth of US$7.6 billion, due to Murdoch becoming a naturalised US citizen in 1985, he is excluded from the list. The ''BRW Rich Families List'' was first published in 2008 and in every year of its publication the Smorgon family has headed the list, with estimated wealth of A$2.74 billion in 2015 spread across seven branches of the family. In 2015 the list comprises 50 families with an entry point of A$302 million.〔 The ''BRW Rich 200'' is one list in a series of lists published by the ''BRW''. Other lists includes: *the BRW Rich series; covering ''BRW Executive Rich'', ''BRW Young Rich'', and ''BRW Rich Summer'' *the BRW Fast list series; covering ''BRW Fast Starters'', ''BRW Fast Franchises'', and ''BRW Fast 100'' *the BRW Top list series; covering ''Top 1000 Companies'', ''Top 50 Entertainers'', and ''Top 500 Private Companies'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BRW Rich 200」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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